Asian, Mid-East ports maintain port productivity lead

Following on from our port productivity long read released this month, the Journal of Commerce has published its findings for ports and terminals in the full-year 2014. This series of charts effectively shows the world’s most productive ports in terms of berth performance – and in that respect it comes with an important caveat: what is measured is the total amount of time a ship spends in port divided by the number of crane moves; which effectively means for an importer how quickly a container will come off a vessel. It does not measure how long your container may then spend in a port’s yard, waiting for some miserable queue at the port gates to clear…